In honor of TaMara’s latest rant:
Urgent: ducks on a slide. pic.twitter.com/eL4uZyvXSc
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— Allen Tan (@tealtan) April 17, 2020
Miss Bianca
Ducks!!
‘Scuse me, I got to go SQUIBBLE now…
Nicole
Oh God(dess), I needed those ducklings on a slide. Thank you. Thank you.
NotMax
Mmm. Duck sliders.
Oh.
Never mind.
/Emily Litella
:)
Baud
Ducks go up. Ducks go down. You can’t explain that.
laura
Big Ups on the duck slide. If Shakira ain’t dancing, I ain’t watching! she sure is kind, lovely and accomplished and just earned a degree from Penn for a short course in ancient philosophy.
dmsilev
I was getting set to walk into one of the buildings at work yesterday, and then someone handed me a turtle.
(this does not happen often)
Catherine D.
Duck on a cat
Achrachno
@dmsilev: A lovely gift. What kind?
Baud
@dmsilev: Just sometimes?
Mnemosyne
I’m so happy that California loosened their liquor laws to allow for takeout cocktails. We will be enjoying housemade sangria with our takeout dinner tonight. ?
ziggy
Love the ducks on a slide! Now I want to get ducks just so I can build a pond and slide. Don’t think my chickens will like a slide! But I have heard they like swings….hmmm….
Elizabelle
Know this is a respite thread, but you might find this bracing sanity and calling things out for what they are to be respite.
Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole’s column from April 25. The Irish Times paywalled it to subscribers only, but it showed up in full on a few other links. (This one a sports blog.) (Anne Laurie included this in a roundup a night or two ago).
dmsilev
@Baud: Once or twice before.
There’s a pond in the center of campus which is home to several dozen of them. They’re not notoriously intelligent, so sometimes they wander away and get lost. So, people pick them up and bring them back to the pond. In this case, a construction worker saw me and apparently figured I would know what to do with a wayward turtle, and hence the handoff.
Elizabelle
@dmsilev: Rescuing turtles is way cool.
TaMara (HFG)
OMG, my ducks need a water slide. ETA: We may need a gofundme so my ducks can have a water slide. Rewards will be videos and gifs.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Mnemosyne:
That sounds yummy! Are you having Mexican/hispanic takeout?
Mnemosyne
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Nope, meatloaf sandwiches. But it’s the drink special tonight and it’s been hot this week, so sangria it is.
dmsilev
@Elizabelle: It was a good thing I had the proper PPE (gloves, specifically); we’re supposed to wash hands after handling the turtles for fear of salmonella.
Seems almost quaint now.
Josie
@TaMara (HFG):
I would definitely contribute.
cain
Since this is a respite thread (and I say it as re- SPITE, not resp-IT) :-)
If shit is getting you down and y’all in a rage, have you considered listening to some brilliant flute music from a family friend – well, he’s not just a family friend but a grammy nominated artist – carnatic flute is one of the most melodious music and peaceful music you’ll ever hear. It makes me glad to be on this earth to be able to hear such elegant beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJYHP1ahjQ4
As a South Indian, Carnatic music the pride and soul of our culture. Here is some more:
https://mio.to/album/Shashank/Reminiscence+Of+Brindava
ETA:
Equally amazing is Native Indian flute music by Carlos Nakai:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHdOSMpZ1_w
There, I think I covered both “Indians” on two continents :D
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev:
Silly turtles. They don’t have to play with raw chicken.
CaseyL
@dmsilev: It would make my day if someone just randomly handed me a turtle. Or a tortoise, for that matter.
@TaMara (HFG): I’m in!…. Do we get visitation privileges, too?
senyordave
We’re in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Spanish Flu, but the lead story on Yahoo is Tara Reade. Anybody who thinks this will disappear anytime soon is crazy. The Republicans do one thing better than anyone, and that is to run a smear campaign. The Post and FTFNYT will have no problem playing this story up to the nth degree while ignoring Trump’s two dozen+ sexual molestation accusations. There better be a back end strategy, because they sure as hell don’t seem to be getting out in front of the story.
RSA
I thought I would be watching the ducklings sliding down the slide. But no. I watch the ducklings waddle up the ramp to do it again.
Baud
@senyordave:
Not respite thread material.
prostratedragon
We want those ducks on a slide!
We need those ducks on a slide!
Elizabelle
@dmsilev: I saw baby turtles hatching on a beach in Ponte Vedra, Florida a few years ago. It was magical. They were protected.
Also, I know that turtles in ponds like apple slices. (We had turtles in a pond in front of a Hampton Inn in SC.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Helter Skelter.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud:
Thank you
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: Unless it’s Moscow Mitch.
Elizabelle
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Turtles are better creatures than McConnell. Would that he were more endangered.
Another Scott
We haven’t used our video cameras for our telework meetings thus far, but if we do, I’m ready!!
Hehe.
Thanks Studio Ghibli!!
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
The new mantra.
;)
dww44
So I gardened all day then cleaned up myself, including my now longish hair, cooked dinner, and just now came up to email and internet. So, I’ve received this from 2 conservative cousins, one of whom almost never emails me, but who I know is an even more diehard conservative than the other cousin and now they’ve begun the” kill the Democratic nominee” forwards. Both are women, older than me, and I’m a senior, too.
I am so sick and tired of this. I cannot handle another election season like 2016. I suppose we could avoid this reprise if we had nominated the Virgin Mary, but I don’t see that happening.
Anyways, anybody else seen this piece from Sky news Australia version:
I’m fast getting to the Tamara and Betty Cracker place of no more f____ks left to give with the political right in this country.
Achrachno
“Urgent: ducks on a slide”
I guess that’s different from ducks on a wall.
senyordave
@Baud: Not respite thread material.
Baby Ducks, baby ducks, baby ducks, baby ducks, baby ducks, baby ducks
dmsilev
@Elizabelle: The ones we have aren’t choosy. Fruit. Breakfast cereal. Lettuce. Pretty much anything that people bring in right past the “please don’t feed the animals” signs.
dww44
@dww44: And the email verbiage with the email attachment went like this:
Elizabelle
You know, maybe we should have a thread on the Tara Reade stuff. Not in a respite thread.
But it’s out there, it’s false, and it would be good to arm Juicers with more information on why it is false.
Tenar Arha
Anne Laurie & everyone: Hello! I saw this cute dog on Twitter & I was wondering if there’s any Pennsylvania (Philly area(?)) Jackals interested in a time limited foster?
ETA ?cute dog w cute name Pibble
Gvg
kittens on a slide
Duane
@mrmoshpotato: mrmoshpotato ducks and runs.
John Revolta
Fiends! 15 seconds is just enough to make me want MOAR DUCKS ON A SLICE!!
(Okay, obviously I meant to type SLIDE but, ducks on a slice don’t sound bad either…….uummmmmm)
ziggy
@TaMara (HFG): I would totally come and build one for you if I was closer. It would be fun to make it very naturalistic, incorporate some curves and landscaping, some lights.
Betty
@RSA: Yes, love the waddling duckies!
Brachiator
Yay!
Tdjr
@Elizabelle: I did. Thanks. Sad really.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@TaMara (HFG): I would so donate to this
Elizabelle
@Gvg: Rescued by mom. But then …
cain
for Tamara – Chilean flamingo chicks out and about in Denver Zoo – https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1255691593706647552
rikyrah
@TaMara (HFG):
If you get them a waterslide, we will need weekly footage???
rikyrah
@TaMara (HFG):
SO happy to read that you are feeling better???